I’m going on a road trip with my boyfriend in a few weeks (yay!), and I’m looking for an audiobook we can listen to. I read quite a bit and lean towards literary fiction, but that’s not necessarily what I’m looking for here. I just want something engaging that’s easy to listen to and not total trash. He doesn’t read as much but it’s mostly non-fiction when he does. He likes Anthony Bourdain’s memoirs, stuff about food/restaurants/wine, and sports, particularly baseball, basketball, and football.
My ideal pick would be like, well-written non-fiction about fraud at a winery or michelin star restaurant debauchery. I could even do some sports drama, so long as I can follow it with my near-zero background knowledge. (I enjoy, for example, David Foster Wallace’s essays on sports.) All topics/genres are welcome though! The only must is that it’s gripping enough to keep you listening through long stretches of highway. Just bonus points if it’s one of those categories. Thanks!
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**What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions** by Randall Munroe narrated by Wil Wheaton.
It consists of a series of questions on pop-sci and pop-culture, each answered in one or two paragraphs. The answers are hilarious in a dry-humored way.
An example question is: What would happen if you hit a baseball pitched at 90% of the speed of light?
Norman Mailer’s “the fight” is some of the best boxing writing there is, it’s short but then you can switch up to something else. Even if you’re not into boxing you’ll like it.
It’s the lead up to the 1974 “Rumble in the Jungle” fight in Zaire (George Foreman vs Muhammad Ali) and the fight itself. Norman can be a bit egotistical but it’s still a good book. I haven’t listened on audiobook but it does exist